Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There are seven colleges and universities in the East, which, because of their student enrollment, traditions and other resources, are natural competitors. These may be listed as Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. I believe that most of the objectionable features of our college sports would be eliminated if in football and other sports, too, these institutions would confine their schedules to games with each other...
...There is no apparent reason, therefore, why the seven institutions listed above should not confine their games to each other. There can be no valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere...
...Freshman teams have been selected which played a three inning game a short time ago. The feature of the game was seven strike-outs by E. Good, and the strong playing of the infield...
Ingalls prepared at St. Paul's School, where he played for two years on the team. He captained his victorious fresh man seven, and after serving abroad with the air forces, he returned to lead the Blue team this winter...
Designs should be in India ink on white paper, and should be four and one-half inches by seven and one-half inches in size. The designs must bear the following words respectively...